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Radical

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Radical may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Radical (mixtape), by Odd Future, 2010
  • Radical (Smack album), 1988
  • "Radicals", a song by Tyler, The Creator from the 2011 album Goblin

Architecture and design

Literature

  • Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism, by Maajid Nawaz, 2013
  • Radical (book), by David Platt, 2010

Linguistics

  • Radical (Chinese characters), part of a Chinese character
  • Radical consonant, a pharyngeal consonant
  • Radical, one of the three consonants in a Semitic root

Politics and ideology

Politics

  • Radical politics, the political intent of fundamental societal change
  • Radicalism (historical), the Radical Movement that began in late 18th century Britain and spread to continental Europe and Latin America in the 19th century
  • Radical Party (disambiguation), several political parties
  • Radicals (UK), a British and Irish grouping in the early to mid-19th century
  • Radicalization

Ideologies

  • Radical chic, a term coined by Tom Wolfe to describe the pretentious adoption of radical causes
  • Radical feminism, a perspective within feminism that focuses on patriarchy
  • Radical Islam, or Islamic extremism
  • Radical veganism, a radical interpretation of veganism, usually combined with anarchism
  • Radical Reformation, an Anabaptist movement concurrent with the Protestant Reformation

Science and mathematics

Science

Mathematics

  • Radical expression involving roots, also known as an nth root
  • Radical symbol (√), used to indicate the square root and other roots
  • Radical of an algebraic group, a concept in algebraic group theory
  • Radical of an ideal, an important concept in abstract algebra
  • Radical of a ring, an ideal of "bad" elements of a ring
    • Jacobson radical, consisting of those elements in a ring R that annihilate all simple right R-modules
    • Nilradical of a ring, a nilpotent ideal which is as large as possible
  • Radical of a module, a component in the theory of structure and classification
  • Radical of an integer, in number theory, the product of the primes which divide an integer
  • Radical of a Lie algebra, a concept in Lie theory
    • Nilradical of a Lie algebra, a nilpotent ideal which is as large as possible
  • Left (or right) radical of a bilinear form, the subspace of all vectors left (or right) orthogonal to every vector

Other uses

  • Radical, Missouri, U.S., a ghost town
  • Radical, North Carolina, U.S.
  • Radical Sportscars, a British sports car maker
  • Radical Entertainment, a Canadian video game developer
  • Radical.fm, a digital music streaming service

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with radical
  • All pages with titles containing radical
  • Radical center (disambiguation)
  • Radical left (disambiguation)
  • Radical right (disambiguation)
  • Radikal (disambiguation)
  • Radicle, the first part of a seedling
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